Episode 44.
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One.
It was long.
I came here after a long time.
[There is a penalty due to the skill.]
[Relive the trauma of the enemy who killed you.]
I think it’s time to talk about a nightmare.
A battle fought on the twelfth floor.
The moment I became a drop of water and was swept away by a torrent.
[Penalty depth is medium.]
I saw it after being killed by the devil.
[This is Agwido (飯鬼道).]
trauma.
The nightmare of the one called the master of nightmares.
[Penalty begins.]
[Creates the trauma of the demon king of the monster Autumn Rain.]
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A village burning in flames.
Before I knew it, I was standing alone in the middle of a sea of fire.
no.
-Burn it!
Maybe it wasn’t me who was standing alone.
At least Bae Hu-ryeong was with me.
Those who truly fell into hell alone were on the other side of the fire demon.
-Burn down the witch’s nest!
Esther.
A saint of the frontier.
The one who saves the broken people.
-Show no mercy. They are all cursed monsters!
-Don’t miss a single one!
Esther couldn’t understand.
I was speechless.
I couldn’t understand, so I could only gape.
why?
How can humans burn humans?
Parents who said they were grateful. Newborn babies who have been given a new life by themselves. All those children were massacred.
-It is the will of the lord!
Soldiers of unknown origin broke down the village’s wooden fence,
-His Majesty the King has commanded!
Knights with different emblems struck down their swords.
-Your Majesty, the Emperor of the Great East, who guards the rising sun and is the protector of all who live between land and sea…
-The Holy Father said, A heretic who dares to call himself a saint…
-This is what the great sage of the forest has asked me to do. Spirit, with this arrow…
-This gem given by the Mermaid Queen provides magical power to our staff…
-Our dragoons have also come to keep the honorable treaty on the ancient volcano! Come on, dragons! Spout fire and kill those things…
They loudly announced their affiliation and name, but even so, Esther could not tell.
Who on earth are they?
Who are you to burn people?
-Ahh, ahhh!
-Help me!
They were cautious. They surrounded the village as if they were hunting big game. I couldn’t see any hole to escape. There was a family trying to escape the village, but they were soon caught and hunted.
The only place to escape is the town square.
Got stabbed by a spear,
Chased by a sword, hit by an arrow,
Hit with hammers, pointed at with sticks, and burned with fire, more and more people flocked to the square.
-Cough!
In the middle of town.
In the middle of the paradise you created.
In a place filled with smoke, Esther looked around carefully.
-Just be patient. a little bit···.
A father bent his back. A small gap appeared between the ground of the world and the father’s waist. The young child hid in that gap. The father caught her flying sparks and swallowed her acrid smoke instead.
The father died first.
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The child lived one minute longer than his father.
-little bit more···.
An old grandfather and grandmother hugged each other. Are you trying to see off your companion for the last time? Esther thought so. But when I looked a little more carefully, I found that it wasn’t. A newborn baby was snuggled into the gap between grandfather and grandmother.
-A little more···.
The moment the fire spread, the grandfather and grandmother screamed. But the old couple did not separate. The flame burned her elbow and made it hard. Even when they were reduced to pitch black charcoal, the old couple was hugging tightly. It is not a final farewell, but a hug to save even a small child.
The couple died first.
The crying sound of a newborn baby coming out of the gap stopped after a minute.
One by one.
There was a coughing sound in the square.
The family started an orchard and became the richest person in town. An old man who went out to the fields every morning to do farm work. In the fall, the old woman looked intently at the wheat field and muttered, ‘My wheat has turned yellow.’
_why… ?
There was no place that was not damaged by any of the people. An incurable disease sleeping in your stomach. Cancer that ate away at my brain and back. Eyes that cannot see in front of you. Feet that cannot walk forward. There were many diseases in the world, so Esther willingly swallowed them up.
Than when I swallowed all those diseases,
-How… … ?
My heart has become even more dark now.
I was scorched by smoke.
It burned with fire.
I quietly opened my lips.
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There was a burnt smell in my mouth.
Esther knew that her heart had darkened a little.
The village burned overnight.
Esther burned overnight.
Wow!
Esther scratched the ashes with her fingertips.
No one disturbed her. Seeing that the village was engulfed in flames, the soldiers leisurely left.
The burning remains of paradise.
-Lepandor…
There was a father’s body there.
-Dajena…
The child’s body was under the father.
-Solafe···，Encounter······Ugensache···.
I dug it.
-Mobazaizan… Topo···Enna······Garchov···.
With bare hands. At your fingertips.
The remains of the village, with nothing left but rubble. The ashes of paradise, reduced to ashes. Even if your fingers turn black and even the blood that flows from broken nails turns black. Esther dug.
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And then, I opened my mouth and ate.
human flesh.
human bones.
Without even flesh and bones, a heap of ashes.
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Human flesh was no longer fragrant. I had no appetite, no sense of beauty. Tannae. There is only a burning reverberation left behind. Nevertheless, Esther ate the burned things without stopping. She swallowed. ravenously. Even if it’s ugly.
The corners of Esther’s mouth became black and dirty.
Esther’s teeth turned black.
-Pityful thing…
Her esophagus was painted black, and her stomach was filled with fluid. The blood turned into a slime and spread throughout her body. It wasn’t just blood. Something was flowing from her eyes.
It probably wasn’t even tears.
If it’s tears, why aren’t they transparent?
-Poor things…
So it’s just rubbish.
The sewage that other humans had used and discarded continued to flow and reached me.
There was nowhere else to go, so it just stayed in his heart.
-You poor things…
The black water did not stop flowing.
-You guys,
It flowed into the square.
-You, you too. You are also human.
It flowed through the village.
-If you were born as a human being and would know the beauty of life, and if you were a human being and knew how to shed tears, how could you? Why?
It flowed in the wilderness.
-Did you call me a monster? Did you burn him because he was a monster? Wasn’t it enough to just shed tears knowing it was beautiful? So there was no hesitation in calling and burning it.
It flowed in the mountains and fields.
-So you will still remain human, and these…my children will remain monsters forever? Is that your world?
Resentment flows like rain.
-In that world, are you the only ones who laugh? Are you the only ones allowed to be beautiful? Are you the only ones who have the right to shed tears? Are you the only humans? You need proof that a person is a person.
The heart echoes and cries out.
-Then now you prove it.
It rained.
-Show me.
It rained.
-I curse you.
Because it rains.
Now no village will burn, no frontier entrance will be engulfed in flames.
my children my blood The color that my heart was taken from.
My blood has already lost its color and only flows as ashes, but the rain that falls in this world is red and testifies on behalf of my blood.
-Be swallowed up by your malice.
It rained.
elegy.
-You guys,
elegy,
It rained.
-You made me like this,
continue.
-And so I made you like that.
elegy,
Because it rained…
– Confucius.
Flash.
-Wake up.
voice.
-This is not your hell.
Hearing a soft voice, I opened my eyes.
[Trauma reproduction completed.]
[Confirm that the subject’s self is maintained.]
[End penalty.]
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Work too.
I only had one sword in my hand.
Both ends (rain).
It’s just that there are things left in the world that I need to cut down.
– Confucius!
Flash.
-Now!
I looked straight ahead.
no.
I could see what was in front of me.
-My head is empty!
The time of feeding is floating as if it lasts forever.
In front of my eyes, who passed by for a split second, there was a person whose entire body was pitch black.
Blood flowed continuously from his body.
Even though the water was cut, it was still water, so there was a lot to cut.
Both sides of the work.
I cut what needed to be cut.
– Wow!
As he was cut, the black king shed blood.
Maybe it wasn’t old junk.
If it is a Chinese food, why is it red?
blood.
Drops of bright red blood flowed from the Demon King’s body.
-Ugh… Ugh…!
The Demon King staggered and took a step back. One step. Two steps. When he took three steps, the purifying water stopped flowing from the Demon King’s right arm.
There was still a black puddle in the Demon King’s footsteps, but when he took two steps instead of one, and when he took three steps instead of two, the puddle became more and more submerged.
Suddenly.
-Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.
The dirt was peeling off the Demon King’s body.
Took. Pop.
The water could no longer flow, so blood flowed instead.
The color of life was originally red.
[The presence of the Demon King of Autumn Rain becomes blurred.]
The being that boasted of absolute inaction was no longer there.
-No… No, no…!
The Demon King wrapped his left arm with his right hand. Blood was flowing from his left arm. As if he couldn’t forgive every single drop of blood leaking out, like a person trying to somehow put back water that was spilled before, the Demon King tightly covered the wound.
-My children… like this… resentment, resentment…
“Retreat.”
I spoke softly.
If a person’s sword cuts the body in two, the voice cuts the soul.
The Demon King paused as if he had been cut by my voice.
“Retreat to the twentieth floor. You can’t beat me anyway. “Please return quietly to your home base, to the final Demon King’s Castle.”
Just by looking at the ‘world map’, the situation of the war was already clear.
Blue territory. Humanity’s territory once again covered the continent. Crossed the intermediate mountain range. We passed the canyon called the Goddess’ Shield. A temple overlooked by a one-eyed giant. A forest where fairies dance. A waterfall where mermaids play. A mountain with flowing lava… . From the plains of the continent to every corner, there was no territory that was not green.
On the other hand, the red territory.
“Now go back to your starting point.”
One point.
It was just one dot.
No matter how large a field a fire burns, in the end it turns into a single ember and fades away. Even if it were a waterway that flooded all the way to the bottom of the sky, in the past it would become a single drop of water and stop.
On the vast world map, there were only red dots, as faint as a half-dot.
That place,
“This is your final destination. Devil.”
The Demon King made a noise.
-Yes, bastard…
The Demon King raised his head. The purging stopped and blood flowed, but half of the demon king’s body was still black and burned. So was his face. The red eyes shine particularly sinisterly. The Demon King glared at me with his face still soaked in lye.
“hmm.”
The swordsman held the hilt of his sword without saying a word.
“I will yield the final blow to the Death King.”
The witch leisurely took care of the six mirrors.
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No matter where I looked, there was no chance of a comeback. I couldn’t see any gaps. Is it because I caught a glimpse of the demon king’s trauma? The current situation felt like a village surrounded by soldiers.
A human curtain with no holes to escape.
-Ugh!
There is no answer for the devil other than running away. However, the reason why one cannot readily choose an answer is because the devil knows that it is not the right answer. same.
Just as running away from the fire into the square only adds one minute to your life. Even if you were kicked out by us and retreated to the 20th floor, the moment of defeat would only be postponed slightly.
-Shit···! Shit!
Blood flowed from the Demon King’s mouth.
[The Demon King of Autumn Rain decides to retreat.]
[The Demon King of Autumn Rain retreats to the 20th floor!]
okay.
Even though people know they will burn to death, they still run away.
The more you run away, the closer the devil becomes to a human being.
[Confirmation of the devil’s retreat.]
[Historical change.]
[The 19th floor stage is being revised.]
The world was once again enveloped in droplets of light.
After confirming that the demon king had disappeared, I looked back.
“Sword Saint.”
“hmm.”
“Black Dragon Master.”
“okay.”
“sorry. “I want to clear the 20th floor by myself.”
I bowed my head.
“Thank you for your help so far. But I want to end things with that devil lord. Please let me go alone.”
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The witch shrugged her shoulders.
“huh. I’m okay. You contributed the most to getting to this point… Anyway, I decided not to move for 5 days like you said. Since I helped you by breaking it on my own, I will really stay still this time.”
“Hmm.”
The swordsman put his sword into its scabbard.
“When today ends, it will already be the fifth day. After clearing the 20th floor, I will meet you separately. “There will be a lot to talk about between you and me.”
“yes. all right.”
I bowed my head again.
“thank you.”
And headed.
“send.”
Twentyth stage.
[Welcome, Death King.]
Devil.
To the village where Esther was born.
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